Vista and Bandwidth Throttling

I'm a little uncertain as to whether I should be able to invoke bandwidth
throttling using Vista Ultimate with a standard home router.

The router does not have DSCP capability, but I have set up Group Policy for
a particularly stubborn backup application (iDrive), which is supposed to
have inbuilt throttling, but it doesn't work.

By setting DSCP in Vista to 8, and Throttling to 8KBps, should I be seeing
any throttling taking place? Or does it need a special router to actually
analyse the QoS information that Vista is adding to the packets? I'm using
OpenDNS - can that assist in any way here?

I set up the group policy to be for a particular application, from any
address, to any address, TCP and UDP.

I have managed to get around this issue by using a trial version of
NetLimiter. But obviously once my 28 day trial is up, if I don't *need* to
buy it, I'd rather not do so, if it's possible using the OS.

Thanks

John

Hi
Vista own would not help with the Internet (It will help when you have your
own server)
To throttle the Internet traffic you need a Router that can do its own Qos
or install 3rd party software that enable you to Shape the computer usage of
the resources.
Example: http://www.netlimiter.com/
Jack (MVP-Networking).


"John Whitworth" <sexyjw@gEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEmail.com> wrote in message
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> I'm a little uncertain as to whether I should be able to invoke bandwidth
> throttling using Vista Ultimate with a standard home router.
>
> The router does not have DSCP capability, but I have set up Group Policy
> for
> a particularly stubborn backup application (iDrive), which is supposed to
> have inbuilt throttling, but it doesn't work.
>
> By setting DSCP in Vista to 8, and Throttling to 8KBps, should I be seeing
> any throttling taking place? Or does it need a special router to actually
> analyse the QoS information that Vista is adding to the packets? I'm using
> OpenDNS - can that assist in any way here?
>
> I set up the group policy to be for a particular application, from any
> address, to any address, TCP and UDP.
>
> I have managed to get around this issue by using a trial version of
> NetLimiter. But obviously once my 28 day trial is up, if I don't *need* to
> buy it, I'd rather not do so, if it's possible using the OS.
>
> Thanks
>
> John

Thanks Jack. I am using NetLimiter, and it does work, but I guess I was just
wondering exactly what Vista's throttling option actually does. If it's
possible to set a throttle limit in Vista (in policies) on an
application-by-application basis, what process actually performs the
throttling?

John

"Jack (MVP-Networking)." <jack@discussiongroup.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
> Vista own would not help with the Internet (It will help when you have
> your own server)
> To throttle the Internet traffic you need a Router that can do its own Qos
> or install 3rd party software that enable you to Shape the computer usage
> of the resources.
> Example: http://www.netlimiter.com/
> Jack (MVP-Networking).
>
>
> "John Whitworth" <sexyjw@gEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%235wgqJB5IHA.3784@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>> I'm a little uncertain as to whether I should be able to invoke bandwidth
>> throttling using Vista Ultimate with a standard home router.
>>
>> The router does not have DSCP capability, but I have set up Group Policy
>> for
>> a particularly stubborn backup application (iDrive), which is supposed to
>> have inbuilt throttling, but it doesn't work.
>>
>> By setting DSCP in Vista to 8, and Throttling to 8KBps, should I be
>> seeing
>> any throttling taking place? Or does it need a special router to actually
>> analyse the QoS information that Vista is adding to the packets? I'm
>> using
>> OpenDNS - can that assist in any way here?
>>
>> I set up the group policy to be for a particular application, from any
>> address, to any address, TCP and UDP.
>>
>> I have managed to get around this issue by using a trial version of
>> NetLimiter. But obviously once my 28 day trial is up, if I don't *need*
>> to buy it, I'd rather not do so, if it's possible using the OS.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> John
>